Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-20

an carly IullinbH bofueWnere IN tho
Blue Ridge mountains, in Southwest
Virginia. 1t W. low and narrow and
dark and stufy. II was also verte-
brated creature that wobbled and
creaked and moved in all directions like
o ships compass, only not willingly asa
compass does, but with ungrncious
bumps and lurches. It had little win
dows that you could look ont Of only
by bending double aud a narrow pas
cage walled in by iron rods, one reach
ing TO the roof from the back OF every
seat. On these poles the upper berths
were hitched when ready for bedtime.
When the upper berths were shut up
they we're not much more out OF the
way than when they were down. The
lower berths were narrow and so short
that you had to lie in one like half
opened pocket knife, with your knees
in the air and the bed-clothes pushed
ND like tent. You did not need to be
pious in order to thank Heaven when
you got out of that car. You did it.
whether or no. Yet Daniel Webster
would have deemed il marvel of COM
fort. am willing he should.
LUXURIOUS CARS.
The other day in Montreal / saw the
new rolling-stock on the Canadian Pa
cific railway. 1t was the most interest
ing sight at the carnival. 1t was strange
TO find in Canada the best equipped
road on the continent, but then it must
be remembered that it is the newest
one, that it is very rich, and that it is
differed by Yankees. The new cars
also came from the States-from Ohio,
1 think. The sleepers are built
OF mahogany outside and satin
wood, lavisbly carved by hand; inside.
The upholstering is magnificent. The
berths are six feet long and nearly four
feet wide. The lower ones make up
into seats as broad as Turks divan.
There are windows in the upper as well
as the lower herths, and each tier OF
berths has its own curtains, so that one
does not have to expose the sleeper in
the lower berth in order to become one
in the berth overhead. There is bath
room and bath-tub in each coach. /
look upon these new cars as prophetic
of the time soon acoming when every
man in the States may not only boast
that he is q king, but may ride like
one-for surely we are not long to be
outstripped by foreign railroad.
The ordinary first-class coaches on
this trans-continental line are equally
in advance of the old-style cars. Each
one has o wash-room of the Pullman
pattern, and in each there is little box
in one corner presided over by darby
boy, who has Just room to turn around
in between bis china cupboard and his
two oil-stoves and boilers. He serves
hot coffee, tea, chocolate, rolls, eggs,
and oysters i'll every style, and milk
sandwiches, fetching them to the pas
sengers in their seats. Each car holds
fewer seats than ours, but these seats are
very broad and so low-backed that one
may sit sidewise and rest ones arms or
elbow easily on the back.
But strangest to me-though the idea
may be moss-grown chestnut to
others-were the emigrant sleepers.
These are like Pullmans in the rough.
They are regular sleepers in plain ash,
without bedding, cushions, curtains, or
upholstery of any sort. You can turn
q hose on inside one of these sleepers
and clean it out as if it were stable
yard. A berth in one is mere bed
stead, plain and simple, and the emf
grants may sleep in their berths with
bundles under their heads for pillows,
or they can buy mattresses and pillows
from the station-agents. A mattress
and pillow on q Canadian road costs 20
cents. Not a wonderful example OF
comfort, you say. No, but it puts the
poor emigrant ahead of the richest OF
our grandfathers after all.
A NOTED CRANK.
Early in 1910 there appeared in New
York young man who thought he had
mission to reform society and to pub
lish book entitled "Social Destiny
of Man" He had the money to pay
the printer, and he called on Park
Benjamin, then the editorof the Ameri-
can Monthly Magazine, for assist
ance in putting his copy into pro-
per shape. When the book was out
It was published in Philadelphia
Mr.. Benjamin said to the author
one day :" You had better show this to
Horace Greeley he's just ID fool
enough to be interested in it." The
editor Of the NeaO Yorker was interest
ed in it-so much so that when he started
the Tribune, shortly after, he set aside
in it column in which for many months
the author was allowed to exploit the
doctrines of Fourlerism. This is the
history of the beginning of the asso-
citation with Mr.. Greeley of man who
was my ois-a-vis at dinner party a few
evenings ago-Albert Brisbane.
| thought / saw ghost when he
came into the room. / had not met
him for ten years and had rarely seen
his name mentioned in the newspapers,
but there he was in prOpria persona,
the same little weazen-faced, nervous,
restless body, not year older in ap'
pearance than on his last wedding-day,
| early in the seventies. And he made
the same transcendental speech that
he might have made when he
| and Horace Greeley were organizing
"Phalanxes in New York almost fifty
years ago-it certainly hadn't changed
very much in the last decade. He had
Just come over from Paris, where he
had dropped his studies fora brief time
TO look after some business in New
York, and he will soon be back again
seeking tosolve theunsolvable problem:
of life, and / suppose he'll die without
being any better satisfied with the ex
listing order of things than when, sixty
years ago, he first went to Europe tC
study philosophy.
Nothing illustrates more forcibly the
changes that the last fifty years have
wrought in New York than to listen tC
speech like that made by Mr.. Bris
bane the other night, and then remem
Der that when he began to talk hii
characterization the people who reat
newspapers were interested in it-anC
read il every day for year or more
Now the few people who waste theil
time over such idle speculations are
called "cranks, and they are not hume
rous enough for the newspapers to de
vote line week to them. AS rule
they are long-haired, dull-eyed, ner
vous, impracticable people who never